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Text Box: There was one more clothe category. Priestess garments. A fringed garment worn only by priests,and a  specific type of priestly mantle which covered only one shoulder that were worn by both men and women. More Frescoes with details on Photo Gallery     Read about frescoes, and page's recourses.         Text Box: Athletes wore a smaller loincloth, comparable to today's swimming suits.  Information available on athletes' dress comes from representations of bull leaping and wrestle scenes, where male and female athletes wore same clothes. As bodies of boys and girls athletes were similar, there was nothing to distinguish them, beyond the fact that girls wore jewelers and had more elaborate hair styles   Text Box: The way men dressed in Minoan Crete is also depicted on  fresco representations. They had only covered buttocks with a small piece of material tightly tied around, named loincloth, usually shaped as short skirt. Text Box: Minoan women wore headbands, diadems and many   jewels from precious metals. Text Box: Minoan female dress, consists of a tight-fitting bodice with short sleeves, a long skirt formed by separate woven bands and a decorative front. Bodice was open in front and breasts were entirely exposed. But, it is not certain whether the exposure of the  breast was an essential element of Minoan dress or part of a ritual Text Box: Minoan Crete and Aegean islands give us first information about costumes  during Prehistory in Greece. Main sources for  costumes are the great number of fresco representations in Crete and Thera.   As they are mainly from  palaces and other important buildings and show scenes from the life of people of high social standing, yet we know nothing about the clothes of ordinary people. Although we can identify certain differences between female and male dress, both  costumes were made of coloured, patterned material, with various techniques.

intered Kallitheas, On Track Team's case study. Aris K. was responsible for this part of our work. Recommended Resolution  1024 x 728 Last update 13/04/2005